After the eviction of the village Lützerath despite fierce resistance of thousand activists and residents on 16 January 2023, we will continue electronic protests against RWE. The destruction of Lützerath and the burning of the coal is a further step towards aggravating the climate catastrophe and directly threatens people. Every tonne CO2 that is expelled means that even more people will suffer from heat waves, extreme weather, droughts, hunger and spreading diseases. Each additional tonne CO2 continues to destabilize the living conditions of the future. Therefore, the coal under Lützerath must remain in the ground.

Lützerath has created a great cohesion of everyone who fights for climate justice. We declare: Lützerath lives. From now on Lützerath is everywhere!

We expand the action zone around #ZADRheinland to the digital space. There are various ways to participate in the permanent online demonstration. With a Virtual Sitin Tool, you can find out by automatic calling the RWE websites why RWE sticks to dirty brown coal. With an iMacros script, RWE can be bombarded with emails using the contact form. Then we flood the headquarters of RWE with free product catalogs. There are also a few practical tips what everyone can do.

Join the online protest now:
http://odevenz.bravesites.com/
Action ended: 20 April 2023

RWE is planning to extract around 900 million tons of brown coal. According to the German Institute for Economic Research Berlin (DIW), this is around four times as much as would be permitted under the Paris climate agreement. Economics Minister Habeck has announced an earlier phase-out of coal but that it is necessary for the energy giant RWE to mine a further 290 million tons of brown coal until 2030, including the coal under Lützerath. Habeck even sells this scandal as a success, since an agreement was reached to accelerate the coal phase-out from 2038 to 2030. It is certainly a success for RWE, since they can still make a lot of money until then, but by no means for the planet and the residents of the village.

RWE’s coal operations produce 90 million tonnes of CO2 emissions per year, so the energy giant is still the no. 1 polluter in Europe. Nearly 80% of the electricity RWE generates is from non-renewable sources. RWE also plans to ramp up on its fossil gas business, despite the clear need to reduce reliance on gas.

RWE shows persistence in digging up and burning brown coal despite its green PR shift and investment in renewables. RWE’s website continues to promote brown coal as a „valuable raw material“ which „will remain vital in the future, too – as a partner in the energy transition“.

In order to comply with the 1.5 degree limit agreed in the Paris climate protection agreement, only a residual budget of approx. 70 million tons of brown coal may be mined in the Garzweiler opencast mine. Excavating the coal under Lützerath is accelerating the climate crisis, which is already claiming countless lives. Anyone who touches Lützerath is a climate criminal!

Netzdemo Portal will launch an online protest in support of the fight for Lützerath and #ZADRheinland against RWE Power AG on
November 18th, 2022
Join the online protest: http://odevenz.bravesites.com/